Key Clinical Points Treating Hypertension in Patients with Concomitant COPD Hypertension
affects many patients with underlying COPD, and the number of patients concomitantly …

Background Morbidity in COPD results from a combination of factors including hypoxia-
induced pulmonary hypertension, in part due to pulmonary vascular remodelling. Animal …

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a hemodynamic state defined by a mean pulmonary artery
pressure≥ 25 mm Hg during resting right heart catheterization. PH can result from …

This is because the cardinal symptom, dyspnoea, is shared with many more common
diseases, and the signs of pulmonary hypertension are difficult to elicit for the non-specialist …

Recent research has greatly improved our understanding of the pathophysiology of
pulmonary hypertension. There is increasing recognition that pulmonary hypertension is an …

It is recognized that chronic alveolar hypoxia is the major cause of pulmonary hypertension
in chronic respiratory diseases [1]. Accordingly, this form of secondary pulmonary …

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) frequently complicates the course of patients with various
forms of chronic lung disease (CLD). CLD-associated PH (CLD-PH) is invariably associated …

Cor pulmonale is right ventricular hypertrophy and/or dilation caused by pulmonary
hypertension (PH) due to diseases affecting the lung function and structure. Recently, the …

Pulmonary hypertension is a progressive and often fatal cardiopulmonary condition
characterised by increased pulmonary arterial pressure, structural changes in the pulmonary …

The 2009 European Guidelines on Pulmonary Hypertension did not cover only pulmonary
arterial hypertension (PAH) but also some aspects of pulmonary hypertension (PH) in …